CVE-2025-24915 – Nessus Agent Windows Local Privilege Escalation

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-24915 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description When installing Nessus Agent to a non-default location on a Windows host, Nessus Agent versions prior to 10.8.3 did not enforce secure permissions for sub-directories.  This could allow for local privilege escalation if users had not secured the directories in the non-default installation location.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-276
    Added Reference https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2025-02
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